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-Plexus-IO
-=========
+# Plexus IO
 
-[![Build Status](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/actions/workflows/maven.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/actions/workflows/maven.yml)
-[![Maven Central](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.codehaus.plexus/plexus-io.svg?label=Maven%20Central)](https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.codehaus.plexus/plexus-io)
+[![Maven Central](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.codehaus.plexus/plexus-io.svg?label=Maven%20Central)](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.codehaus.plexus/plexus-io)
+[![GitHub CI](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/actions/workflows/maven.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/actions/workflows/maven.yml)
 [![Reproducible Builds](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jvm-repo-rebuild/reproducible-central/master/content/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-io/badge.json)](https://github.com/jvm-repo-rebuild/reproducible-central/blob/master/content/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-io/README.md)
 
-The current master is now at https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io
+Abstractions over files and resources: a uniform view of something to be read whether it is on disk, in an
+archive or in memory, plus the selectors and mappers used to filter and rename those resources.
 
-For publishing [the site](https://codehaus-plexus.github.io/plexus-io/) do the following:
+Most people meet it through [`plexus-archiver`](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver), which
+uses it to decide what goes into an archive and under what name.
 
+## Status
+
+Maintained, conservatively. The API is stable and widely depended on transitively, so changes are mostly
+bug fixes and dependency updates.
+
+## Using it
+
+```xml
+<dependency>
+  <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
+  <artifactId>plexus-io</artifactId>
+  <version>3.6.0</version>
+</dependency>
 ```
-mvn -Preporting verify site-deploy
-```
 
-Enjoy!
+Check the badge above for the current version.
+
+## Requirements
+
+Java 8 or later.
+
+## Documentation
+
+- [Project site](https://codehaus-plexus.github.io/plexus-io/) — including [file mappers](https://codehaus-plexus.github.io/plexus-io/filemappers.html) and [file selectors](https://codehaus-plexus.github.io/plexus-io/fileselectors.html)
+- [Javadoc](https://javadoc.io/doc/org.codehaus.plexus/plexus-io)
+- [Release notes](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/releases)
+
+## Contributing
+
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). In short:
+`mvn verify` builds, and run `mvn spotless:apply` before pushing or CI will fail on formatting.
+
+Please report security vulnerabilities privately — see
+[SECURITY.md](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/.github/blob/master/SECURITY.md), not a public issue.